Or within 48 hours of a bad loss.  The knee-jerking on this board is beyond ridiculous.  We are in nearly the exact same situation we were last year (21-6 vs 20-7) except we are in a much better place in the standings.   As for a coach forcing his style on this team, that's what coaches do.  He isn't just coaching for this year.  He's coaching long term and his system is the one we are going to run long term.  The last new Ohio coach to have more wins in his first year than the old coach had in the previous year was William Trautwein in 1938.  John Groce took a 20 win team and ended up with a losing record in his first season. Why?  Because he instituted his system which hurt short team but obviously paid off long term.

But yes, maybe we should fire him.  Having the best conference record we've had in 50 years is grounds for dismissal.  Let's bring in a guy with absolutely no track record as a head coach to replace the coach with the highest winning percentage in MAC history (something he's even improved on this year).   Yes, Saturday sucked hard.  Yes, this year has been somewhat disappointing compared to what many of us had hoped for this year.  But every year is like that.  Last year at this time we were in the midst of another disappointing MAC season after bad losses to EMU and Toledo.  All that is forgotten now after our run but it happened all the same and many of you who are hammering Christian were hammering Groce.   Welcome to college basketball.